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When it comes to getting around the downtown in Wilmington, a real estate firm wants to know if a shuttle service would help.

An online survey hosted on McConnell Johnson Real Estate's website is seeking opinions on if offering transportation to two downtown buildings they manage -- 1201 N. Market St. and the Hercules building -- would be an attractive amenity. The poll is available at mcconnellco.com. (On a desktop computer, you will see the poll by scrolling down on the page. Look for a logo that looks like a taxi.)

There's been a lot of talk lately about public transportation in Delaware's largest city.

However, that same station has been the focal point for some very vocal advocates of boosting the city's public transportation services. Some say there are too few stops at the train station. That was something that became more apparent when many more people started trying to use it in Delaware when the I-495 bridge was out, as The News Journal reported in June.

Notably, David Curtis, who moved to the First State from Philadelphia, has been trying to get support for improving Delaware's access to public transportation. He's been using social media and traditional media to get the word out about it. His Change.org petition has about 2,500 signatures.

"It always felt like an intractable problem, even though the trains are always super busy and half of the total ridership [on the Wilmington/Newark line] is on the four stops in Delaware alone," says Curtis. "But I never knew how to go about changing it and then the bridge went out on June 2nd and it seemed like the right time to build public support for greater frequencies."

And once off the Amtrak, people need to get around in the city.

There are taxis, of course, and they do typically hang around the area around the Amtrak station. But anyone who has been out and about during the workday in the city has seen a long line of cars flooding in around rush hour -- even from city neighborhoods for young professionals, such as Trolley Square, which are just a mile or so from the business district.